Buildings are one of the largest consumers of electrical energy, making it important to develop different strategies to help to reduce electricity consumption. Building energy consumption forecasting strategies are widely ...

There are several ways to attempt to model a building and its heat gains from external sources as well as internal ones in order to evaluate a proper operation, audit retrofit actions, and forecast energy consumption. ...

Smart buildings seek to have a balance between energy consumption and occupant com-fort. To make this possible, smart buildings need to be able to foresee sudden changes in the build-ing’s energy consumption. With the help ...

In Ecuador, energy consumption is accentuated in the residential sector due to population growth and other parameters, which leads to an increase in energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel subsidies. ...

Buildings are currently among the largest consumers of electrical energy with considerable increases in CO2 emissions in recent years. Although there have been notable advances in energy efficiency, buildings still have ...